The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-08

MOTHERS REVENGE FOR HER
DAUGHTERS WRONG.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Casimira Torres kept a small huckster
,non in a narrow street in the city of Albu-
arcroue, n. NJ. In the rear of the shop was
q Kitchen. and stairway led to the rooms
ohove The woman lived alone and was
ronuted rich though of very misery dis
,,nsition She had resided there for five
,.oars and so reserved and unsocial had she
loon that no one had ever been beyond the
confines of the little shop. Great, conse-
,rontlv, was the surprise of Casimira's
reiohbors when they discovered that a
vnne couple had come to reside with her
who called her aunt. These people were
about % years of age and appeared to be of
+ba better class Soon after their arrival
new furniture was procured for the house,
and the place speedily assumed a neat and
wcll-kept ar.
One evening during the month of Feb
ruary, 1858, Sonora Torres was seated in her
ehoD when q stranger entered. He asked
for a button to match one he presented, and
the woman turned aside and handed down
a drawer containing buttons
"Where is the buttonm asked Sonora
Torres.
worn by coachmen, and on it was a crest.
All the metal except a small part of the
pdoe. was stained, and had lost its polish.
As the woman gazed at the button she
turned deathly pale and clutched at the
counter, gasping for breath.
'sYou are i'll" the man said; 'let me get
YOU a drink OF water"
''Never mind" the woman answered.
81 am subject to spasns, and this will
Tff I fob hot h,tf
81 don't expect you to match it except in
size" the man said
II tell you | can't match it," the woman
answered, almost angrily.
THE MAN LOOKED SURPRISED
and passed out into the street. After he
had gone a short distance he remembered
that he had left the button on the counter,
and returned for it. When he entered the
shop no one was there. There was a light
in the rear room, and he heard voices within.
He knocked once or twice on tie counter,
but there was no response. Then he went
toward the glass door and looked into the
rear room.
The woman whom he had before seen and
young woman and man were standing
by side-table, passing the button from
hand to hand and closely examining it, CON
versing the while in whispers. All of them
had a hurried, frightened look. The stranger
was puzzled, and after a few moments hest
tation he knocked at the door. There was
shutting of feet and the closing of a door,
and the next moment the woman came from
the room into the shop.
81 left the button here, the stranger said.
"Did youP queried the woman, as she
pretended to look around for it. oh here
it is" she at length said, and handed it to
him. He thanked her and left the place
1t was some weeks later that this man
Eulogio Sanchez by name-one of firm
of iron founders, went to the city of Taos
to superintend the putting up of iron rails
and fences around the park of Senior Ortiz,
a wealthy resident of that city. Senior
Sanchez, on reaching his destination, was
not little surprised to find that on the
livery of Senior Ortiz's servants was
button precisely similar to that which
opened this story.
Senior Sanchez spoke of the circumstance,
and said that one of his children picked up
the button in the garden, but how it came
there he could not tell The boy tied a
string to the button and used it for his toy,
and younger son cried to have it. The
father took the button and tried to get one
the same size, and that's how he came to
call on Sonora Casimira Torres. Senior
Ortiz expressed his surprise at the button
finding its way so far away, and the CONVEX
sation grew until Senior Sanchez referred to
Its fancy he saba mere fancy; but
used to think the stain looked like blood"
For the second time Senior Sanchez wit
messed a strange scene produced by the but
ton, the first time by the sight of it, and
the second time by description of it,
Senior Ortiz, at the mention of the stain
and its resemblance to blood, turned as
pale as death, and uttered an exclamation
of agony.
Great Godr" he said, "a stain of
blood"
mo, Senor," replied Senior Sanchez, lit
was only my foolish fancy, and | regret
that | made such a senseleSs remark"
Alas! you don't know what a dreadful
circumstance your remark has called to
mind, Senior Ortiz said, and then he re-
lated the following:
STARTLING NARRATIVE.
"On New Years eve, 1S41, my youngest
son, Francisco Ortiz, was murdered in his
bed. Owing to my frequent absences in
the States on important business matters,
the boy had been suffered to run wild and
ne got entangled with girl of the town.
her friends had driven him to promise to
marry her, and he was just about TO do so
when reached home. | easily induced him
10 refrain, and very soon managed by kind
treatment to get him under control. The
friends of the girl did all in their power to
Gdecoy him from home and my influence,
put they failed. He had got over his in
tatuaton for the girl and was glad to be
freed from the enthrallment.
When the girl gave birth TO a child |
caused all TO be done that was just, and af-
Ter the death of the child placed the girl in
agood situation. Her mother l took into
my employ as head domestic, and she
seemed satisfied For five years things con-
Iihued thus. Francisco would be of age on
New Years Day, 184l, and | had resolved
70 make him q handsome present. He had
Seeh induced TO retire early on the eve OF
ms birthday, and his elder brother
ana were in the library tying
up $4,000 in gold and notes, and
Plallnng how he should deposit it in the
10y room, where he would find it the first
SS,Ilhg when he awoke on his birthday
ME we We're doing this the mother of the
slri, already spoken of. was in the dining
I Wh adjoining arranging the apartment.
We spoke of our intention, and she no
tount overheard us. Three was an entrance
Francisco's sleeping apartment by a
uI'Sslng room door, which opened on the
V%rlldor. When we had ascertainded that
t,ianclsco was probably asleep we entered
VIC urawlng room and placed
THE BAG CONTAINING THE $4,000
vi the table, by the bedside, with an open
HFote' stating that it was a birthday gift
n1n me and his elder brother. Then we
dwyted the apartment, and locked the door
y, ti ~ dreSSing-room behind us. passed